Carnival Triumph at Half Moon Cay.
Career
Name:	Carnival Triumph
Owner:	Carnival Corporation & PLC
Operator:	Carnival Cruise Lines
Port of registry:	Bahamas
Builder:	Fincantieri Monfalcone, Italy
Cost:	US $420 million
Christened:	Madeline Arison
Completed:	1999
Maiden voyage:	1999
In service:	October 1999-present
Identification:	IMO number: 9138850 Call sign C6FN5 MMSI 308045000
Status:	In Active Service as of 2010
Notes:	[1][2][3]
General characteristics
Class and type:	Destiny/Triumph-class cruise ship
Tonnage:	101,509 GT
Length:	893 ft (272.19 m)
Beam:	116 ft (35.36 m)
Draft:	27 ft (8.23 m)
Decks:	13 decks
Installed power:	diesel-electric (34,000kW each)
Propulsion:	2 propellers with twin rudders (6 maneuvering thrusters) (17.6MW each)
Speed:	22.5 knots (41.7 km/h; 25.9 mph)
Capacity:	2,758 passengers
Crew:	1,100 crew
Notes:	[1]

Carnival Triumph is a post-Panamax Destiny/Triumph-class cruise ship, operated by Carnival Cruise Lines in the Caribbean.

History[link]

Carnival Triumph was completed and entered service in 1999.

Layout[link]

Carnival Triumph has a "Great Cities of the World" theme. Her amenities include the Paris Dining Room, the London Dining Room, the Rome Lounge, Club Rio featuring music, and a workout center and the Spa Carnival. She is structurally identical to her sister ship, Carnival Victory, and differs from her class's namesake, Carnival Destiny, by the addition of extra balcony cabins on the Lido deck and various changes to placement and shapes of its public areas.

The ship has one of the first sea-going cellular systems which allow guests to use their own personal cellular phones to make calls directly from the ship at any time, called "Cellular at Sea".^[4]

Service[link]

Carnival Triumph currently^[when?] sails 4 and 5 day voyages from Galveston, Texas to the Western Caribbean. It recently^[when?] relocated from its former home port in New Orleans, Louisiana after a dry dock period. Carnival Fantasy, the previous ship sailing from New Orleans, now operates from Charleston, South Carolina.^[5]. The current captain of Triumph is Angelo Los.^[6]

Seized in Galveston[link]

On March 30, 2012 a judge ordered the ship to be held in Galveston, according to the Bloomberg news service. The move comes as part of a $10 million lawsuit filed in federal court in Galveston by relatives of a German tourist who died in the Costa Concordia disaster. Reports say that the warrant ordering the ship held in port states that the “court finds that the conditions for an attachment of defendants' joint and collective property within this district, mainly the MS Carnival Triumph, appear to exist upon an admiralty and maritime claim.”

Furthermore, Bloomberg says, the Triumph would be allowed to unload passengers and cargo and move between berths until a “prompt hearing” can be scheduled. ^[7]

Gallery[link]

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  Carnival Triumph in Hudson River.

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  Carnival Triumph at Nova Scotia with HAL's MS Maasdam behind

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  View of the Carnival Triumph's Panorama Deck

References[link]

External links[link]

• Carnival Triumph Official Page (Carnival Site)
• Data From XVAS
• Media related to Carnival Triumph at Wikimedia Commons